[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago

Thanks to Poe's Law, you may want to try this next time: "/s"

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago

Even Jason figured this one out.

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Probably people who have heard of these scientists being recently credited for their work.

The phrase "all the credit" is a bit sensationalist, and it's too easy to poke holes in, although I do concede that "Most of the credit" is vague and "All of the Nobel Prize recognition and prize money / peer accolades" is a bit too wordy.

It's important that we don't weaken the cause by easily disprovable exaggeration. These scientists did not get nearly enough credit; true.

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are many examples of this, but one that comes immediately to mind is the evolution of my favourite LDAP-enabled music player, airsonic-advanced

Subsonic begat libresonic

Libresonic begat airsonic as well as a whole bunch of other projects.

Airsonic begat airsonic-advanced

Airsonic-advanced begat kagemomiji/airsonic-advanced, however the maintainer of the parent codebase, randomnicode, wants to do the right thing and get their code up to snuff with the opensubsonic API (not sure where that fits in to thr history) so kagemomji can take over.

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

When I got married and had a kid, I discovered "trouble swalling pills" is indeed a phenomenon.

I have been taking pills since I was five thanks to my temperature-based allergy. I just salivate when I see a pill. It's quite inconvenient when I am handling my child or spouse's medicine.

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

HVAC systems.

When my wife and I we had to replace our forced air furnace and central air system in the late autumn due to carbon monoxide literally the evening before our son was to be born, I felt under pressure to get something in place.

I told them I needed a more powerful air conditioner for all the unique heat-generating equipment in my basement, especially since our old system had trouble keeping up. They said that the new unit was more than enough for the square footage. I reiterated again, that air conditioners don't cool square footage, they cool BTU's, and the average home doesn't have a grow op and server farm in the basement generating significant heat. Then, they decided to hit me with the old "I've been doing this for {x} decades" speech.

Needless to say, I've had to consolidate servers, stop indoor gardening, replace the bulbs in the house with those shitty blue-hued LED's that can't dim right (and dimmer switches to handle the change in load characteristics), take the weather into account when cooking indoors and clean both sets of A/C coils on a more frequent basis. The air conditioner still can't keep up and when we have a string of hot days, we can't always count on the cooler evenings to get the house back down to "room temperature".

Oh, and now our old chimney drips water into the basement.

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 33 points 4 months ago

...hospitals sell your information, too.

I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 45 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's limerence.

A more stable relationship is when feelings crystalize, but until then, there's limerence. Two-way limerent relationships are as unstable as a bottle of undiluted nitroglycerin. In any case, limerent relationships are quite common, and are the stuff of music, art, and poetry.

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 81 points 6 months ago

Also. around the mediterrainian, fish is a food staple of the poor. The point is to eliminate excess.

I'd argue that an inlander ordering fish at a fancy restaurant on a Friday during Lent is not following the spirit of the law (which can be more of a discipline than a rule, depending on the local episcopal authority), especially if it's not a special occasion and the fish was caught hundreds of kilometers away.

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 39 points 8 months ago

There's a reason why every encounter with an Angel starts with them saying "Do not be afraid."

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 24 points 9 months ago

It's a project by an Australian team, so one would assume two things:

  1. It's in Australian Dollars.
  2. Australia has experienced severe hyperinflation overnight (or earlier today, for many of us reading this)
[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago

Ten 9/11's?

Jesus, that's... 8 and 2/11.

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